Re: [Usability] Possible to provide an option or a sugeestion in KScreen to (guide the user to) enable "PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING"?

2022-02-15 Thread David Edmundson
>(But where should the setting be saved? "~/.profile" or a config file like "startkderc"? The latter may require modifying If a problem is hard to solve, change the problem. It's an environment variable because that was a good tool for the problem it was solving at the time. But there's no reason

Re: [Usability] Possible to provide an option or a sugeestion in KScreen to (guide the user to) enable "PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING"?

2022-02-14 Thread Nate Graham
This isn't a bad idea. I've been somewhat frustrated with the situation on X11 for a few years. Given that the only true blocker for using Qt scaling is the fact that it breaks mixed-DPI multimonitor quite badly, I think you are right that we could express this trade-off in the UI, and let the

[Usability] Possible to provide an option or a sugeestion in KScreen to (guide the user to) enable "PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING"?

2022-02-09 Thread Fusion Future
Currently, Plasma on X11 disables `PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING` by default to avoid some more serious bugs (and many of them have been fixed [1]). Bug 356446 [2] was marked "RESOLVED INTENTIONAL" because "it breaks mixed-DPI screen arrangements" and there seems no way to overcome the defect because